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I think Pat Kirwan has got this particular take badly wrong. Bill Belichick is not in the business of bending over to do his buddies a solid.
How do you get out of that that Belichick is doing anyone a solid??
It asserts that:
- BB and Payton agreed to do Butler + 3rd for Cooks + 4th.
- Butler part fell through at the time, so it was done with the NE #32 as a placeholder for Butler
- NE would prefer to have the #32 and NO would prefer to have Butler
- Thus if they can, the teams will trade Butler for the #32 to finish the trade.
All the "BB would be screwing NE and doing a favor to Payton by taking the #32 because NE would get the #11 if NO signed Butler to an offer sheet" people seem to have some magic belief that NO would actually give Butler that offer sheet. If neither Payton nor BB think Butler is worth the #11 pick why would you think the #11 pick has any relevance whatsoever? If BB thought Butler was worth the #11 he never would have allegedly agreed to the Butler + 3rd for Cooks + 4th trade in the first place.
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